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Post by clarencebunsen on Apr 17, 2013 15:37:18 GMT -5
I think I still have one in my SLR bag (if I can find my SLR bag) but I thought I always called it a "sunlight" filter. I used it mostly to keep the sand from getting to my zoom lens.
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Post by dave on Apr 17, 2013 16:13:43 GMT -5
Brings back memories. (What doesn't?) I had a small darkroom set up in the laundry room, because it was the only room without windows, aside from the half bath in the basement that would have been in frequent use with kids around. There was no sink or room to install one, so I just carted the trays and water in. And when it was time to wash after fixing the prints I would carry the wet prints next door in the tray and wash them in the bathroom. I also had a small black bag I could stick my hands in and blindly load my bulk film holder and cartridges. I came across it when we were moving and said to my wife, "Oh look, here's my old changing bag!" She laughed and said, "You never changed a diaper in your life."
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Post by bobbbiez on Apr 17, 2013 17:15:43 GMT -5
Bz, I can finally say that other than the girl from high school, I finally met someone ... you ... who actually met Annette in Utica. Does that mean you want my autograph? ;D Last year I started to put all my old photos in albums and then got bored doing it, plus I got tired of buying albums. If I get back to that feat again I will look for my old photos of the Royal and there were plenty of them because of the family parties they hold there. Pretty sure we took pictures of Annette and I'm thinking I have them. When I broke up with John I did give him some of his pictures back but I'm thinking I still have some. If and when I get back to doing the old photos I will definitely look through them to see if I have one of Annette's visit.
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Post by chris on Apr 17, 2013 18:19:16 GMT -5
Clipper you took the words right out of my mouth. I was going to say the exact same thing but you beat me to it. ;D
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Post by Clipper on Apr 17, 2013 19:30:14 GMT -5
Haha. Didn't mean to beat ya out kiddo, LOL. There is not much about local bowling up there that I am not familiar with. I have been an avid bowler since I was a teen Chris. I bowled in all the houses that existed in Utica back in the 50's and 60's. There were lots of them.
My favorite was the Palace. We used to like to bowl upstairs at the Palace. I also bowled quite often at Royal and Madison lanes, Pin o Rama, Aurora, Sunset, Riverside, and Sea Farer in Whitesboro. Bus fare and a couple of bucks and you could spend an entire afternoon at the bowling alleys back then. It was only about 25 or 35 cents a game to bowl. Now it is $4 in some places for open bowling. We now pay $12 a night for our league bowling but that goes for bowling AND the prize fund, and that is cheap for our area.
The smallest bowling establishment I have ever bowled at was in Constableville NY many years ago. It was a couple of doors down from the Hotel Parquet and it only had two lanes. I doubt that it is even there any more.
When I was old enough to drive we used to like to bowl in Frankfort at Thurston's because they had excellent pizza.
When I moved to Newport, I bowled at the Pioneer Inn. When that burned, the lanes and pin setting equipment were moved to a new building in Barneveld NY. I bowled on those same 8 lanes in Newport in high school and in Barneveld right up until we moved here to Tennessee in 2002.
As an adult I bowled all over NY State in tournaments. Kathy is an avid bowler also. I bowled on a league at Griffiss when I worked there, as well as on a league at Mohawk Lanes in Rome, and later with Kathy on a league at Kingpin Lanes. In Utica, I bowled with a team from the OD at Vista on the same nights that Kathy bowled at Pin 0 Rama. We always traveled to the Lilac Tournament in Rochester every year, and we were on a traveling team from Adirondack Lanes that went from one local bowling center to another every other Sunday, concluding the little tourneys with a buffet put on by the proprietors.
Since moving here I bowled Sunday, Monday, Tuesday and Thursday, and subbed on Wednesday and Friday if asked for several years, and was an officer on several leagues over that period. It got expensive and my knees could not handle the abuse. I was spending about $300 a month on bowling and Kathy was bowling two nights and one morning league back then and spending quite a bit also. Now we both bowl only two nights a week and I am the president of the city mens bowling association. We travel to the Virginia men's state tourney and the Tennessee women's tournament every year, and bowl in every charity tournament that we can find in the tri cities area.
It is a sport that we both enjoy and can do together. The leagues that we bowl on now are on the same two nights at the same lanes. The men's league has 12 teams on lanes 1-12 and the women bowl on lanes 12-24. We always cap off the night with friends, eating at Perkins. Bowling has become the mainstay of our social life and recreation.
As we get older, our averages go down, but the enjoyment and friendships continue to grow. I remain active with the city association in order to promote the sport at every opportunity and have simply grown accustomed to serving in one office or another on the board of directors. I was VP for a few years and now I have been the president for two years. A rather thankless job that simply serves as a go between, between the leagues, the bowling center proprietors, and the state and national associations under USBC. No big deal, but rewarding if you love the sport as I do.
I never bowled with my friend Tony as I didn't meet him until he was a senior in high school and was dating a girl I was in a college class with. We never bowled together, but we tipped back a lot of beers together for a few years. Usually finished the night off with a couple of late night chili dogs and coffee with his dad Ike at the Patio.
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Post by dave on Apr 17, 2013 22:20:40 GMT -5
Downtown Constableville, NYI tried to get to Highmarket, but the Google CameraCar got this far down Highmarket Road and turned around. Probably driven by some kid from Queens.
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Post by Clipper on Apr 18, 2013 10:30:34 GMT -5
LOL. Looks like it was an extremely busy traffic day in Downtown C'ville. The building that would have housed the bowling lanes. I am not sure about the orientation of this picture. If one stood in front of the Hotel Parquet, facing East, the bowling alleys were in a building on the left hand side of the street, a few doors East of the restaurant. In the 80's my ex-wife and I went there often for prime rib on Sundays, and around that same time we used to go there on Friday or Saturday nights to listen to the Williamson brothers from Boonville play country music.
The reason for the stopping short by the google car may have been because it was not yet mid May and there was still snow drifts just over the hill toward High Market. I have fished some small trout streams in that area (headwaters of the Salmon river, or Sugar river) and have seen significant snow in spots well into the last weeks of April and early May. Who knows.
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Post by dave on Apr 18, 2013 20:26:54 GMT -5
The view above in the last post was what Google Guy saw at the foot of Main Street. Maybe that's why he took a hard left toward Highmarket, although as we saw he never got there. He was here when he refused to go up main Street:
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Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2013 9:04:58 GMT -5
Today in American Bandstand History
1962 - Ketty Lester performed "Love Letters" on "American Bandstand."
1974 - Tony Orlando & Dawn performed "It Only Hurts When I Try to Smile" on "American Bandstand."
1985 - Lady Pank performed "Minus Zero" and "Hero" on "American Bandstand."
1985 - Sheena Easton performed "Swear" on "American Bandstand."
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Post by clarencebunsen on Apr 20, 2013 9:55:56 GMT -5
I can't find a video of the Bandstand performance. Will you settle for Shindig?
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